Azeruz

Transgothic-trance - original songs by Stevie Wishart, with Chris Abrahams and Shane Fahey

stevie wishart azeruz

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£10 plus postage and packaging

About Azeruz

Azeruz (LP, 2000) was created by Chris Abrahams (The Necks) and Shane Fahey (Scattered Order, Social Interiors) using raw material developed by Stevie Wishart (Machine for Making Sense, Sinfonye).

The album successfully traverses the genres of avant-rock/pop, experimental, electronic, dub; mediaeval, early music and world music. The musicians on this album are experts in their fields and succeed in creating a sonic landscape of great breadth and depth that stretches back through time. Themes, song structures and instrumentation of early European music are successfully translated into a modern context with Stevie’s haunting vocals, arrangements and lyrical interpretations. Traditional instruments (flutes and percussion by Jim Denley, Stevie’s hurdy gurdy, fiddle, and violin) are combined with intricate sampling, programming and keys (Chris Abrahams) and analog synths & found sounds (Shane Fahey) brought together by Shane’s painstaking spatial production. Made over two and a half years, the benefits of time and space are evident in the finished product.

This album is a musical odyssey that stems from the manuscripts of early music vaults. It has a delightful precision in the re-mix type programming and a substantial depth of field that is characteristic of a well-devised soundscape. The musicians on this album have translated the traditional form of early music song through the use of complementary harmonic gestures that have been sampled from the album’s pre-production recordings. Loops are worked into whole structure of the music as beats and rhythmic overlays and extend into the areas of vocalisation and instrumentation. The trio set their sights on the celestial and succeeded in realising one of its myriad musical forms.

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Tracks

  1. Lacuna
  2. Angels Turning The World - Into Motion
  3. Azeruz
  4. Eyes Across Skin
  5. Cloud Over Moon
  6. Quinken
  7. No Tears
  8. Travelling At The Speed Of Time
  9. Absence
  10. Surface